Special Report

Fungicides critical in risk management

As farmers combine crops, Mike Meyer, Product Development Manager for Aproach Brand Fungicides with DuPont Crop Protection, tells Brownfield they will be assessing the crop.   They will be thinking about the practices used in 2017 that worked and those that did not.  Meyer said growers should access risk factors for disease such as tillage patterns and hybrids and varieties to determine how fungicides can be used in their program to manage disease going forward.

Although commodity prices are lower and many farmers are looking for areas they can cut back, Meyer says this is not the best time to cut back on fungicides.  There are diseases that cannot be managed without fungicides, so they are critical to prevent such extremes as early plant death and significant yield losses.

Meyer tells Brownfield Aproach fungicide is effectively controls northern corn leaf blight, Southern leaf blight and common rust in corn; soybean white mold, frogeye leaf spot, brown spot and Asian soybean rust in soybeans; and powdery mildew, rusts, tan spot, septoria leaf blotch and glume blotch in wheat.  On fields with heavy disease pressure and for intensively managed acres with high yield potential, Meyer suggests growers use Aproach Prima fungicide.

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